Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic.
Covering artists and events from across the United States: from New York to California and from South Dakota to Texas, the chapters are equal parts theory and practice, weaving scholarship with personal experience from contributors who are interdisciplinary artists, scholars, journalists, and community organizers providing unique and invaluable perspectives on the complicated work of resilience during COVID-19.
This study will hold interest for students and scholars in the performing arts, arts, and social justice as well as professional artmakers and creative community organizers.
Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic.
List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pandemic
Performance and Aliveness as Art (Kendra Claire Capece and Patrick Scorese);
PART I: America God Damn;
1. Imagining Decolonial Futures: In Conversation
with Autumn White Eyes (Autumn White Eyes with Kendra Claire Capece);
2. How
Do You Hold When You Need to Be Held?: Dance and the Embodied Practice of
Grieving (Joya Powell);
3. (Re)current Unrest: The Fire This Time (Charles O.
Anderson); PART II: Friction and Encounter;
4. Performative Allyship and the
Foxes That Drool: In Conversation with Brittany Talissa King (Brittany
Talissa King with Kendra Claire Capece and Patrick Scorese);
5. Theatre in
Quarantine: Temporality and Nostalgia in Remediation (Patrick Scorese);
6.
Come Be People in Space with Us: Space-making as Mutual Art and Mutual Aid
(Theresa Buchheister); PART III: Building a New Future;
7. On Composition,
Conspiracies, and Dancing in the Light of Tomorrow: In Conversation with
Ricardo iamuuri Robinson (Ricardo iamuuri Robinson with Kendra Claire
Capece);
8. The COVID-19 Ruptured Art World: Sustainable Elements of
Structural Change for a Transformative Future (Lee Painter-Kim);
9. Dancing
In the Rubble: Post-MoMA and Otherwise Post-Pandemic Futures (Marz Saffore);
Index
Kendra Claire Capece is a New York-based writer and researcher with special interest in high-impact work that exposes injustice.
Patrick Scorese is an independent writer and performance-based artist who also serves as the Associate Director of Development at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
